Sarah Palin U.S. VP Candidate Stirs Up the Political Blogs
Category: Social Media News
Tags: political blogs, sarah palin, Social Media News
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
The Republican National Convention hosted Sarah Palin who spoke Wednesday night.
The Vice Presidential candidate accepted the nomination for the VP position. Govenor Palin said that she was ready for the challenge of this position.
Sarah Palin Flickr Photo
photo by asecondhandconjecture
One of the latest outcomes of the rise of social media is the instant delivery of perspectives and information from bloggers. Bloggers actively report the political blog scene (blogoshere) and are now considered in some venues as credentialed news reporters.
The Wikipedia has currently locked down the encyclopedia’s entry for Sarah Palin due to the volitile nature of this entry.
The Sarah Palin Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin reads:
This page is currently protected from editing until September 8, 2008 or until disputes have been resolved.
Social media allows for breaking news items to receive immediate attention related to news stories.
Sarah mentioned in her speech that she rid herself of some spending excess, “that personal jet, I put it on e-bay”. A simple news clip like this might appear hundreds of times by Thursday morning. Ten years ago, it might be a quote listed in a dozen newspapers.
The times have changed and blogs are certainly reporting information more quickly that we could have ever imagined ten years ago.
September 15th, 2008 at 10:26 am
McCain’s pick of Palin is not just to pull the women’s vote. This is nonsense. What is clearly obvious to those who can see is that she is a maverick like McCain and when faced with what is not right for the people, mothers as well as fathers and children she will not sit and be quiet or back down. McCain needed a maverick like him who understood the woman’s view of political corruption and waste. She was the only logical pick of all possibilities just for that reason.
And not liking someone over their voice or the way they carry themselves is prejudicial and dumb.
Track records clearly laid out in history show who is experienced or not. That’s why resume’s are given out to get a job. Furthermore, I stumble a clash yesterday and overlook to post it but anyway this clash video is entitled Obama v. McCain on Iraq & Afghanistan. US Presidential candidates have clashed sharply in recent days on Iraq, Afghanistan and the War on Terror. Watch both two statements http://clashorama.com/index.php?id=192, who do you think or believed is right?